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Ateneo team wins National Biology Cup

March 04, 2019

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The Department of Biology congratulates

Marianne Louise B. Antonio (4 BS LfSci)

Niel Joseph S. Jacob (4 BS Bio)

Joseph Raymund G. Sanchez (5 BS Bio)

for winning the Championship in the National Biology Cup (NBC) held last Saturday, 2 March 2019, at the University of the Philippines-Manila. The National Biology Cup is organized by the Biology Majors Alliance of the Philippines (BMAP) and is one of the premier college-level competitions in biology.

All three are members of TaTaBOx, the official academic competition team of the Ateneo Biological Organization - eXplore. eXperience. eXcel. (BOx). Antonio is BOx's Associate Vice President for Academic Development. Sanchez previously placed 3rd in the 2017 NBC, where another team of the Department of Biology and BOx won the Championship. This year's team was supervised by Mr. Emmanuel D. Delocado, Assistant Instructor of the Department of Biology.